Reading a web page as a text string

HI Folks, How can I read a html page as a text file? I saw a demo of someone doing this on a Mac using AppleScript. The example sent a zip code as a variable attached to the remote site url. This resulted in a web page being sent back with the city and state info included. He then read the page as a text string, parsed out the city and state info and used it. How could this be done with PHP? I think the sending the url and zip code variable could easily be done with a <form>. How do you read the html page that is returned????? Any ideas. Thanks. -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Michael Seely 408-777-9949